Main description:

Pocket Guide to Intervention in Occupational Therapy, Second Edition builds upon the strengths of the first edition as a useful quick reference of occupational therapy terms and interventions regarding specific diagnoses and conditions.

Occupational therapy is an evidence-based health care profession that uses scientifically based research to justify clinical practice. Interventions in hospitals, clinics, and community and school settings continue to evolve based on scientific evidence. These interventions are intended to prevent injury and maintain or improve client function.

Pocket Guide to Intervention in Occupational Therapy, Second Edition by Dr. Franklin Stein and Dr. Kristine Haertl is organized around the major conditions that occupational therapists encounter in their everyday practice. These include physical, psychosocial, cognitive, geriatric, and pediatric diagnoses. Intervention guidelines are outlined for the major disabilities. In addition, there are brief descriptions of the intervention techniques that therapists use and definitions of terms that are relevant to interventions.

Intervention techniques encompass the following:

Non-medical techniques such as client health education or counseling
Instruction in activities of daily living, modifying of environment such as in ergonomics
Teaching and demonstrating arts and crafts as therapeutic activities
Providing sensory stimulating activities, especially for children

The appendices include an outline of essential skills for occupational therapists, general developmental guidelines, an overview of muscles and movements, orthotic devices, tables of muscles, average range of motion measurements, prime movers for upper and selected lower extremity motions, and substitutions for muscle contractions.

Pocket Guide to Intervention in Occupational Therapy, Second Edition is based on the latest scientific evidence garnered from recent research studies, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, occupational therapy textbooks and their own wide experiences as a clinician, professor and researcher.

Contents:

Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Preface
Major Terms and Interventions
Alzheimer's Disease
Amputation
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Anorexia Nervosa
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Anxiety Disorders
Aphasia
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD)
Autism
Bipolar Disorder
Blindness
Borderline Personality Disorder
Burns
Cancer
Cardiac Disease/Cardiac Dysfunction
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Cerebral Palsy (CP)
Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA)
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Cognitive-Perceptual Deficits
Conduct Disorders
Depression
Down Syndrome
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Edema
Guillain-BarrE Syndrome
Hand Injuries
Learning Disability/Specific Learning Disorder
Low Back Pain (LBP)
Motor Control
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Myasthenia Gravis
Osteoarthritis
Parkinson's Disease
Post-Polio Syndrome
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Schizophrenia
Sensory Deficits
Spinal Cord Injury
Traumatic Brain Injury
Weakness

References
Appendix A: Ten Essential Clinical Skills for Occupational Therapists
Appendix B: Commonly Used Medical Abbreviations
Appendix C: Developmental Milestones: Birth to 5 Years
Appendix D: Orthotics and Orthoses Exoskeletal or External Devices to
Limit or Assist Motion in Joints of Body
Appendix E: Table of Muscles
Appendix F: Average Range of Motion Measurements
Appendix G: Prime Movers for Upper and Selected Lower Extremity
Motions
Appendix H: Substitutions for Muscle Contraction
Appendix I: Health Organization Web Resources